8-letter words containing a, r, n, o
- seaborne — transported by ship over the sea.
- seafront — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- selangor — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 3160 sq. mi. (8184 sq. km). Capital: Shah Alam.
- senorita — a Spanish term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- sensoria — a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
- shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
- sheraton — Thomas, 1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
- shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
- signoria — the government of an Italian city-state
- skiatron — a cathode-ray tube used in radar
- snot rag — a handkerchief
- snot-rag — a handkerchief.
- sobranje — the national assembly of Bulgaria, consisting of a single chamber of elected deputies.
- soekarno — Achmed [ahk-med] /ˈɑk mɛd/ (Show IPA), 1901–1970, Indonesian statesman: president of the Republic of Indonesia 1945–67.
- solander — a case for maps, plates, etc., made to resemble a book and having the front cover and fore edge hinged.
- sonarman — a petty officer who operates and maintains sonar.
- sonogram — the visual image produced by reflected sound waves in a diagnostic ultrasound examination.
- sonorant — a voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w).
- sortance — suitableness
- spadroon — a type of sword
- spanworm — measuringworm.
- spray-on — applied by means of an aerosol spray
- squadron — a portion of a naval fleet or a detachment of warships; a subdivision of a fleet.
- squarson — a clergyman who is also main local landowner
- staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
- stanford — (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
- start on — begin attacking
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- stratton — Charles Sherwood ("General Tom Thumb") 1838–83, U.S. midget who performed in the circus of P. T. Barnum.
- strawson — Sir Peter (Frederick). 1919–2006, British philosopher. His early work deals with the relationship between language and logic, his later work with metaphysics. His books include The Bounds of Sense (1966) and Freedom and Resentment (1974)
- strontia — Also called strontium oxide. a white or grayish-white, amorphous powder, SrO, resembling lime in its general character: used chiefly in the manufacture of strontium salts.
- swordman — swordsman.
- taganrog — a seaport in the S Russian Federation in Europe, on the Gulf of Taganrog.
- taileron — an aileron located on the tailplane of an aircraft
- tainaron — Cape, a cape in the Ionian Sea, S Greece, at the S tip of the Peloponnesus.
- tamanoir — a large anteater of Central and South America, Myrmecophaga tridactyla
- tandoori — baked or cooked in a tandoor: tandoori chicken.
- taormina — a resort commune in Messina, in E Sicily, Italy: Roman remains.
- tarnopol — Ternopol.
- tarragon — an Old World plant, Artemisia dracunculus, having aromatic leaves used for seasoning.
- teardown — a taking apart; disassembly.
- tetragon — a polygon having four angles or sides; a quadrangle or quadrilateral.
- tetraxon — a four-pointed spicule
- tetronal — a sedative drug
- tevatron — an accelerator in which protons or antiprotons are raised to energies of a few trillion electron-volts.
- tirolean — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Tyrol or its inhabitants.
- tolerant — inclined or disposed to tolerate; showing tolerance; forbearing: tolerant of errors.
- tone arm — the free-swinging bracket of a phonograph containing the pickup.
- tonsilar — of or relating to the tonsils